"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (15 Viewers)

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That this is being made public most assuredly means the next strike on the Kerch bridge will be via anything but these drones. Such announcements are meant to encourage the Russians to defend against the last attack while leaving themselves open to the next.
 
The town of Urozhaine (Donetsk oblast) liberated, a Stryker strikes, an ukrainian tank in a joyride firing and followed by artillery rounds, a Hummve hitting a mine as viewed from the inside, drone attacks in Reni port in the Danube:

 
Wow, I thought those had been retired?
The USAF has them listed as "retired", but their storage disposition is listed as "1000", meaning they are in a maintained state of readiness.

However, they have been kept active for research, training and in the case of these exercises: enemy anomoly training (cruise missiles, stealth fighters and drones).
 

Thanks for explaining, that was a little baffling to me.
 




A very active retirement indeed.
 
That's gonna cut into their Social Security benefits.
 

Not close to the C-47 though
 
And I think fire bomber is about the only role it, or its derivatives, have never done.

They were one of the backbones of NZ crop dusting for many years

Although they were never a fighter the RAAF and probably others fitted forward firing MGs to a number of them so they could fight back
 
What a ridiculous mess - between the incompetence and the outright greed & corruption, Russia is literally a real-life example of a fictional land in a fictional storybook.
 

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